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>> 21 December 2018

No Toolbar, no Status bar
Returning to Virtual Box after leaving it for some time (not because i dislike it. But i was busy). And I have
got a real big unpleasant surprise !

Virtual Box version
5.2.22
Installed from rpmfusion

Linux
Fedora 29

What
no toolbar?

Like it the hard way!
One way to remedy this problem was to go to user
folder/.config and remove VirtualBox folder and to be more sure
des-install and re-install pkgs. You like head ache aren't you. In Addition you'll lose all the last VM's ?

A better way

A better way is to edit the file
"/home/user/.config/VirtualBox/VirtualBox.xml" You'll find two elements one for Toolbar
and another Status bar toggle both from false to true (if you have something else missing, try here). When you start Virtual Box, elements are there

3rd easy way
Right click on Menu bar and check either Toolbar or Statusbar or both

Another big problem
Changes in this virtualbox.xml are not persistent
When you close VirtualBox and re-open it Toolbar and Status bar are vanished!
virtualbox.xml header mention this

** DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE.
** If you make changes to this file while any VirtualBox related application
** is running, your changes will be overwritten later, without taking effect.
** Use VBoxManage or the VirtualBox Manager GUI to make changes.

More solutions?

Not yet. But if you close VirtualBox in Fedora 29 using "x" button. The next time you'll get no Toolbar the same is true for Statusbar. But if you close it using File,Exit (menu), and restart bars are there!

Known bug

This bug is already known for VirtualBox community, we hope for a fix soon

https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/17855?cversion=0&cnum_hist=2

Host-only has changed its place

Normally We can use host-only adapter for internal networking on adapter 2